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It's probably happened to you: You open up your food delivery, hungry and excited to chow down, only to find out you were given the wrong order. But a Connecticut woman took things a bit farther than most of us would with her response: She called 911, Fox 61 reports. "I ordered a small pizza, half cheese and half bacon," the woman told the dispatcher. "They bring me half hamburger. So I called them back, and they don't want to give my money back. They keep hanging up on me." Why was she calling 911? She wanted to know, "If ... they don't want to give me my money back, can you guys do something?"

The dispatcher informed her she would have to take her issue up with the pizzeria, though she did add that if the woman headed over to the shop, "You can call and have an officer meet you there. But an officer isn't going to just call them and have them give you your money back." Per NBC, the pizzeria says it would have offered a refund, but the woman had already eaten half the pizza. The woman will not be charged for misuse of 911.

She should be charged. Just the other day, we had a case of a house fire involving our entire comm center. Now I should briefly describe our comm center. Its basically a pentagon that looks like the sports book a the MGM. On one side are call takers, taking unclassified calls. It would be so much better if your phone had buttons for "police, fire, ambulance." Now people like me have the direct # for each one so I can get faster service than you dialing 911. So the call comes in for a house fire. That's several calls as people see flames erupt out of the iron bar clad windows. Then the mom calls, "My kids are inside, please get them out." She had already burned herself trying to go back in. Now dispatchers are talking to arriving rigs and officers telling them the kids are in the back room. So can you imagine that happening and this piece of $hit calls and says, "my pizza is wrong." So the first crew in is met with a wall of flame and has to basically spray a path to the back room. But no kids. Later they do find the kids burned in the bathroom, as that's a popular place to try to hide. So the takeaway is don't mess around with 911 as you have no idea what crap they are shoveling.

Kanye2020

Mar 31, 2016 8:56 AM CDT

These stories just encourage this stuff.

PJfromNJ

Mar 31, 2016 7:12 AM CDT

She was probably drunk, high and obnoxious, resulting in the pizza parlour repeatedly hanging up on her.